Page 1844 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 8 June 2016
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We write to you as a concerned employer with regards to the proposal to install paid parking metres in Phillip.
Our primary concern is the impact that the proposal will have on the staff employed by our company, as well as the staff of surrounding businesses.
As an example our business employs over 200 staff from a wide range of backgrounds and vocations that will be severely impacted by the proposals. Some examples include:
We currently employ approximately 35 apprentice motor mechanics who are school leavers seeking to gain skills and training towards a long-term career
We also employ approximately another 40 motor mechanics and trades people that are in short supply and difficult to attract
We also employ 6 semi-retired courtesy bus drivers who work on a part time basis to supplement their retirement incomes
We also employ working mothers seeking to earn a second income to support their families
… who are unskilled and from under privileged backgrounds. This currently includes a refugee asylum seeker
We employ trainee salespeople, trainee administration staff, trainee spare parts interpreters, etc who are at the commencement of their careers seeking to gain skills and training towards a long term career
We consider the proposal will be a significant financial impost on such staff, and is simply unaffordable. It will also be another barrier for local traders being able to attract staff.
We believe a more targeted response to the issue of parking is more active parking inspectors in the area to ensure the existing spaces on limited time frames are being turned regularly.
As a large employer in the Phillip precinct I would be happy to meet with you or relevant parties to discuss the impact of the proposal.
As I said that was a letter from one of the directors at Lennock Motors. Again, I will outline the impact of this decision by reading from another email received by my office, which states:
I have been contacted by a number of large employers and small business owners in this area who are very concerned about this decision and the financial impact it will directly have on their employees and their business. There are also many other issues behind such as being able to hire staff in the first place.
One Employer in particular has 200 employees and is very concerned about the impact on his business. He says, “Many of his employee’s drive to work and will now incur an impost of $45 per 5 day week for 48 weeks equalling $2,160 per annum and a fair % of their wages as a large number are either apprentices or part-time supporting families.”
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